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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Statement Highlights: This is the first guidance on stroke in children from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke risk, symptoms and treatment in children are different from those in adults. The clot-busting drug t-PA is not generally recommended for treating children, especially newborns. Stroke in children is not as rare as once thought and the symptoms do not mirror...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
A research project at the University of Leicester in conjunction with the University of East Anglia, indicates that early reduction of high blood pressure following stroke is feasible and safe, and both Labetalol & Lisinopril were found to be suitable a medications for this purpose. Larger studies will now be necessary to confirm this result and test the effects on recovery from stroke.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Northstar Neuroscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTR), a developer of medical devices for the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders, announced that long-term data for both the PROSPECT feasibility study of cortical stimulation for depression and the EVEREST pivotal trial studying cortical stimulation for arm/hand disability post stroke were presented this week at the American Society for Stereotactic...
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Nutrition Health (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
International Nutrition Research found that peanuts help control diabetes, its rich plant steroid, to reduce platelet aggregation, prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have been very helpful. Oxford Brookes University Professor of JeyaHcmy also cited the results of a study, a total of 356 subjects object, Among them, 203 cases of type [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Walking therapy for stroke survivors is significantly more effective when conducted by a physical therapist instead of a robot, according a small study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.Research suggests that, for a patient who has neurological damage from stroke or spinal cord injury, moving the legs in a way that mimics walking on a treadmill can facilitate walking recovery....
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Higher wealth is linked with a lower risk of stroke in Americans between the ages of 50 and 64, but does not predict strokes in those over age 65, researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association."We confirmed that lower wealth, education and income are associated with increased stroke up to age 65, and wealth is the strongest predictor of stroke among the factors we looked...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
New research shows women who have weekly migraine are significantly more likely to have a stroke than those with fewer migraines or no migraine at all, but those with lower migraine frequency may face increased risk of heart attacks. The research will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 12 - 19, 2008.The Women's Health Study involved 27,798...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
An important breakthrough in our understanding of how the brain works could help stroke patients to regain their speech.Action Medical Research has announced the results of the study as a "leap forward in understanding". The charity adds that patients could benefit from this discovery within the next three to five years.Up to one quarter of stroke patients suffer from speech impairment of some degree....
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
The highest rate of stroke hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries exists among African-Americans and in counties located primarily in the southeastern states, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Concentric Medical, Inc., the global leader in devices for clot removal in ischemic stroke patients, announced that the results of its Multi MERCI trial will be published in the April 2008 edition of the medical journal, Stroke.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
A preliminary study funded by the National Institutes of Health found that a stent designed to open clogged arteries in the brain was successfully deployed in nearly all cases and significantly reduced arterial blockage in the short term. But data on the long-term benefit of the stent, compared to medical treatment alone, were inconclusive, prompting the upcoming launch of a large-scale randomized...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
New research suggests that when one part of our language network breaks down, the system has the ability to reroute itself.Applying tools from the branch of mathematics known as graph theory to human memory to understand how words are stored may explain why many patients recover language skills after brain trauma such as stroke, according to Michael S.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/14/2007
Being over two-years-old, not being administered anti-coagulant drugs, and having a certain genetic mutation all increase the risks of repeated venous thrombosis (VT) in children, conclude authors of an Article published early Online and in the July edition of The Lancet Neurology. [click link for full article]
